Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Fuqua Expels Students Over Copied Tests

Over 30 first-year MBA students at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke Unviersity are now facing severe penalties for having collaborated on the written answers for a take-home test and other class assignments.

The punishments meted out by the School's Judicial Board include expulsions for 9 students and one-year suspensions for 15 others. 9 other students will receive a failing grade for the course the work was for, and 1 will receive a failing grade on the exam in question.

The students have until mid-May to appeal the Judicial Board rulings.

The students got into trouble when one of their professors noticed that the wording of the answers on a number of the take-home tests were almost identical. That discovery prompted a wider review of other class assignments, some of which were also so similar that they suggested students had collaborated on what were supposed to be individual assignments.

Source: "Cheating Incident Involving 34 Students at Duke Is Business School's Biggest Ever," the Chronicle of Higher Education, April 30, 2007

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